科学家称吉他手的大脑与众不同

More and more scientific studies have been looking into how people who play the guitar have different brain functions compared to those who don’t. What they found was quite astonishing and backed up what many guitarists may instinctively know deep down.

越来越多的科学研究一直在研究弹吉他的人和不弹吉他的人的大脑功能是如何不同的，他们的发现是相当惊人的，并支持了许多吉他手可能本能地深入了解的东西。

Guitar Players’ Brains Can Synchronise

吉他手的大脑可以同步

You didn’t read that wrong! Yes, a 2012 study was conducted in Berlin that looked at the brains of guitar players. The researchers took 12 pairs of players and got them to play the same piece of music while having their brains scanned.

你没看错!是的，2012年在柏林进行的一项研究观察了吉他手的大脑。研究人员让12对参与者播放同一段音乐，同时扫描他们的大脑。

During the experiment, they found something extraordinary happening to each pair of participants – their brains were synchronising with each other. So what does this mean? Well, the neural networks found in the areas of the brain associated with social cognition and music production were most activated when the participants were playing their instruments. In other words, their ability to connect with each other while playing music was exceptionally strong.

在实验中，他们发现每对参与者身上都发生了一些不同寻常的事情——他们的大脑彼此同步。这意味着什么呢?大脑中与社会认知和音乐制作相关的区域的神经网络在参与者演奏乐器时最为活跃。换句话说，他们在演奏音乐时相互联系的能力非常强。

Guitar Players Have a Higher Intuition

吉他手有更高的直觉

Intuition is described as “the ability to understand something instinctively, without the need for conscious reasoning” and this is exactly what’s happening when two people are playing the guitar together.

直觉是“不需要有意识的推理就能本能地理解某件事的能力”，这正是两个人一起弹吉他时所发生的事情。

The ability to synchronise their brains with each other, stems from this developed intuitive talent indicating that guitar players have a definite spiritual dexterity to them. Not only do their brains synchronise with another player, but they can also even anticipate what is to come before and after a set of chords without consciously knowing. This explains witnessing a certain ‘chemistry’ between players in a band and why many bands include brothers who may have an even stronger connection.

他们大脑彼此同步的能力，来自于这种发展的直觉天赋，这表明吉他手对直觉有一种明确的精神灵活性。他们的大脑不仅与另一个演奏者同步，而且他们甚至可以在不自觉的情况下预测出一组和弦之前和之后会发生什么。这就解释了为什么乐队里的成员之间会产生某种“化学反应”，以及为什么很多乐队里会有兄弟，他们之间的联系可能更紧密。

Guitar Players Use More of Their Creative, Unconscious Brain

吉他手更多地使用他们的创造性的、无意识的大脑

This particular area of the brain – the right temporoparietal junction – typically deactivates with ‘long term goal orientation’ in order to stop distractions to get goals accomplished. This was in contrast to the non-guitarists who were unable to shut off the conscious part of their brain which meant they were consciously thinking more about what they were playing.

大脑的这一特定区域——右颞顶叶交界处——通常会随着“长期目标导向”而停止活动，以停止分心，实现目标。这与非吉他手形成了对比，他们无法关闭大脑中有意识的部分，这意味着他们有意识地更多地思考他们在演奏什么。

This isn’t to say that this unconscious way of playing can’t be learnt. Since the brain’s plasticity allows new connections to be made depending on repeated practice, the guitar player’s brain can be developed over time but it’s something about playing the guitar in particular that allows this magic to happen.

这并不是说这种无意识的游戏方式是无法习得的。由于大脑的可塑性允许通过反复练习来建立新的联系，吉他手的大脑可以随着时间的推移而发展，但正是吉他手的演奏让这种魔力出现。